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senate vote 2022-02-10#5
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Title
Business — Consideration of Legislation- Business - Consideration of Legislation - Exempt from Standing Order 111
Description
<p class="speaker">Jonathon Duniam</p><p>I move:</p><p class="italic">That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of standing order 111 not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this period of sittings:</p><p class="italic">Appropriation (Coronavirus Response) Bill (No. 1) 2021-2022</p><p class="italic">Appropriation (Coronavirus Response) Bill (No. 2) 2021-2022</p><p class="italic">Corporate Collective Investment Vehicle Framework and Other Measures Bill 2021</p><p class="italic">Electoral Legislation Amendment (Foreign Influences and Offences) Bill 2022</p><p class="italic">Electoral Legislation Amendment (Authorisations) Bill 2022</p><p class="italic">Electoral Legislation Amendment (COVID Enfranchisement) Bill 2022</p><p class="italic">National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021</p><p class="italic">Parliamentary Workplace Reform (Set the Standard Measures No. 1) Bill 2022</p><p class="italic">Religious Discrimination Bill 2021</p><p class="italic">Religious Discrimination (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021</p><p class="italic">Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021.</p> <p class="speaker">Nick McKim</p><p>I ask that the question be put separately on some of the legislation in this motion, and, apologies, I'll need to go through the list. We intend to vote differently on the following pieces of legislation: the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Foreign Influences and Offences) Bill, the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Authorisations) Bill and the Electoral Legislation Amendment (COVID Franchisement) Bill, the NDIS amendment, the Religious Discrimination Bill, the Religious Discrimination (Consequential Amendments) Bill and the Human Rights Legislation Amendment Bill 2021. I ask that the question on those bills be put separately to the question on the remainder of the bills in this motion.</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>With the agreement of the chamber, I'll put the question on those bills as set out by Senator McKim first. We start with the question on those bills as listed by Senator McKim—three electoral matters bills, NDIS amendment, two religious discrimination bills and the human rights bill.</p> <p class="speaker">Janet Rice</p><p>I seek leave to make a short statement.</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>Leave is granted for one minute.</p> <p class="speaker">Janet Rice</p><p>The Religious Discrimination Bill should be dumped rather than be rushed through the Senate. The bill, as was passed through the House last night, would increase discrimination against people with disability, against women, against people of minority faiths and against LGBTIQA+ people. The bill, as was passed through the House last night, would allow an aged-care home to refuse to employ a worker because she is a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. The bill, as was passed through the House last night, would allow a school to sack staff or students because they refuse to sign up to a school policy that says homosexuality is evil. The bill that was passed through the House last night would make legal hurtful, harmful statements, like disability being a punishment from God. This bill should be dumped. It should be put into the dustbin of history, rather than being rushed through the Senate.</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>The question is that the motion be agreed to with respect to the bills as listed by Senator McKim. Senator Urquhart.</p> <p class="speaker">Anne Urquhart</p><p>Could we put the electoral bills separately, and the religious ones together?</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>You're happy with putting the electoral bills and the NDIS bill together, and then the religious discrimination and the human rights bills; is that correct?</p> <p class="speaker">Anne Urquhart</p><p>Yes.</p> <p class="speaker">Slade Brockman</p><p>We will start with the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Foreign Influences and Offences) Bill 2022, the Electoral Legislation Amendment (Authorisations) Bill 2022, the Electoral Legislation Amendment (COVID Enfranchisement) Bill 2022 and the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021. The question is the motion be agreed to.</p><p></p><p></p> -
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2022-02-10.30.1):
- > *That the provisions of paragraphs (5) to (8) of [standing order 111](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Chamber_documents/Senate_chamber_documents/standingorders/b00/b20#standing-order_c20-111) not apply to the following bills, allowing them to be considered during this period of sittings:*
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- >* *Electoral Legislation Amendment (Foreign Influences and Offences) Bill 2022*
- >* *Electoral Legislation Amendment (Authorisations) Bill 2022*
- >* *Electoral Legislation Amendment (COVID Enfranchisement) Bill 2022*
- >* *National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Participant Service Guarantee and Other Measures) Bill 2021*
- ### Paragraphs (5) to (8), Standing Order 111
- > *(5) Where a bill:*
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- >> *(a) is first introduced in the Senate by a minister in a period of sittings; or*
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- >> *(b) is received from the House of Representatives and was introduced in that House in the same period of sittings; or*
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- >> *(c) is received from the House of Representatives after the expiration of two-thirds of the total number of days of sitting of the Senate scheduled for that period of sittings,*
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- >> *and a motion is moved for the second reading of the bill, debate on that motion shall be adjourned at the conclusion of the speech of the senator moving the motion and resumption of the debate shall be made an order of the day for the first day of sitting in the next period of sittings without any question being put.*
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- > *(6) Paragraph (5) does not apply to a bill introduced in the Senate or received from the House of Representatives within the first two-thirds of the total number of days of sitting of the Senate scheduled for the first period of sittings after a general election of the House of Representatives, but consideration of such a bill shall not be resumed after the second reading is moved in the Senate unless 14 days have elapsed after the first introduction of the bill in either House.*
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- > *(7) Paragraph (5) does not apply to a bill received by the Senate again in the circumstances described in the first paragraph of section 57 of the Constitution.*
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- > *(8) In paragraphs (5) and (6) "period of sittings" means a period during which the Senate adjourns for not more than 20 days*
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